FCC is honoring hundreds of thousands of fake anti-net-neutrality comments left by bots

The link is to vocative.com, I site I know nothing about but seems okay, but whether you want to click or not is up to you.

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FCC Is Honoring Fake Anti-Net Neutrality Rants Left By Bots

Chair Ajit Pai is considering everyone's voice in his bid to dismantle internet freedom — that may include fake people's

The federal agency weighing whether to kill a basic internet freedom wants to hear from you first.
But it probably thinks your real voice is worth the same as that of a faked comment pretending to come from a real person.

Whenever the Federal Communications Commission weighs a serious decision — like now, when it’s weighing whether to overturn rules to protect net neutrality, which keep internet providers from selling internet “fast lanes” and “slow lanes” for certain sites — it invites the public to comment, and weighs its response in its decision. So far this year, it’s already received more than 2 million such comments on net neutrality, and will assuredly receive far more in the coming months.

Public comments are, in theory, an important part in how the FCC makes a choice. “When I was at the FCC, problems with the electronic comment filing system were treated with the utmost urgency and transparency,” Gigi Sohn, the counselor to previous FCC Chair Tom Wheeler, told Vocativ.

However, as a ZDNet investigation discovered, however, a number of the recent comments supporting the net neutrality rollback used the exact same screed, blaming former U.S. President Barack Obama for the net neutrality rules and falsely claiming they’ve stifled broadband internet investment. But while the comments used the names and addresses of real people — these people say they didn’t file them — meaning they were likely filed by bots.

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